508 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 29. 1855. 



pretty much the same as that which influenced 

 the Puritan divines in their charges against the 

 elergy in the days of Charles I. J. Sansom. 



Irish Proverbs. — Mr. Bolin, in his Handbook 

 of Proverbs, which comprises " an entire repub- 

 lication of Ray's Collection of English P7-overbs, 

 with his additions from foreign languages " (Lon- 

 don, 1855), has given, in p. 270., a list of eight, 

 " presumed to be Irish." As Mr. John O'Dono- 

 van has observed, — 



"These are, without doubt, modem English-Irish pro- 

 verbs of the lowest order and rudest nature; but they 

 have no more to do with the wise sayings of the ancient 

 Milesian Irish, than with the proverbs of Solomon, or the 

 wise sayings of the Brahmins." 



There may be found in the Dublin Penny Jownal, 

 Tol. i. p. 158., a long list of genuine specimens, 

 translated by Mr. O'D., principally from the late 

 James Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy, and sufficient 

 to satisfy, on this head, the philosophic inquirer 

 after national character. Abhba. 



The Royal Artillery Company. — Breaking up 

 an old book, I found pasted within the covers a 

 summons to a member of this corps, which might 

 interest now that the country resounds with the 

 elang of war. A cut representing the arms of the 

 company heads the document, which runs thus : 



« Sir, 



"It is ordered that on Tuesday', the 5th of this instant, 

 September, 1G82, the Artiller\' Company shall form an 

 exercise of arms. You are therefore earnestly desired to 

 make your appearance in the Artillery Ground by nine 

 of the clock on the day aforesaid precisely, in your com- 

 pletest arms and habit, with red feather. 



" Pray fail not as j'ou value your own honour and the 

 interest of the Society. You are desired to be punctual at 

 the time, because the Company intend to march early. 



" Those gentlemen that on that day handle muskets, 

 are desired to take care that their arms are clean and well 

 fixt, and that they bring with them fine dry powder, and 

 even match. 



" Signed, William Pemberton, Beadle." 



J.O. 



Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New 

 Holland. — I have frequently heard questions 

 asked respecting the authorship of this work, 

 which was published in London in 1837, and sub- 

 sequently in 1849. These questions have been 

 solved by the librarian of the Royal Dublin 

 Society, in a note appended to a recent catalogue : 



" This book is the work of the Archbishop [of Dublin] 

 and several other persons. The first edition was edited 

 by Lady Mary Fox." 



I take this opportunity of adding, from the same 

 source, the following information : 



" The only perfect collection of the works of Archbishop 

 Whately extant, is that in the library of the Royal 

 Dublin Societj'. To this collection his Grace has mainly 

 contributed by donations, and has promised to maintain 

 it by a donation of every future publication." 



Abiiba. 



No. 32-2.] 



^MtXitS, 



DE STRODE. 



I have by me an old pedigree of part of the De 

 Strode or Strode family, commencing with the 

 following, so far as I can decipher it : 



" Warrinus de Strode primus familire quantum ex Char- 

 tis antiquis constat."* 



From this gentleman it continues through fifteen 

 or si.Kteen generations to the year 1623, and con- 

 tained in it I find names, particulars relative to 

 one or other of which may by chance be of service 

 to some of your readers engaged in genealogical 

 research ; I therefore here transcribe them, and 

 shall be happy to give such further information 

 respecting the ladies as may be contained in the 

 document I copy from : 



" Baily, Thomazin, de Uphauen. 

 Barnard, Sara, de Downeside. 

 Barnard, Johanna, de Downeside. 

 Bitton, Beatrix de. 

 Brent, Elizabetha. 

 Bulliford, Alicia, de Com. Deuonise. 

 Butcher, Anna. _ 



Cheyney, Margareta, de Pmbro in Com. Deuon. 

 Coker, Anna, de Com. Dorset. 

 Cox, Maria, de Kensham. 

 Crispe, Eebecka, de London. 

 Cromwell, Katherina, de Lawne in Com. Leicest. 

 Fillioll, Eliz., de MarnhuU. 

 Fleete, Maria, de Chartam in Com, Cancii. 

 Gerard, Margeria. 

 Hadley, Maria. 

 Hemerford, Dorothea. 



Hodges, Maria, de Chepton [Query, Shepton?]. 

 Huddy, Elizabetha, de Pillesdon in Com. Dorsett. 

 Knight, Eliz., de Tenwick, Co. Berks. 

 Lane, Anna, de Mettes, in Com. Somsett. 

 Leddred, Alicia de, de Somton. 

 Leversedg, Eliz. 

 Oule, Johanna. 



Penn}^ Dorothea, de Co. Som. 

 Pollard, Ruth, de London, 

 Polshott, Elizabetha. 

 Poxwell, Christian. 

 Upton, Elizabetha, de Warminster. 

 Whiteing, Alicia." 



If such a Query is not too vague, I should be 

 glad to know who are the present most direct de- 

 scendants of the De StrodeS. 



I enclose a sketch of the coat of arms on the 

 pedigree before me, which will be the means, no 

 doubt, in experienced hands, of soon settling this 

 question. If necessary, perhaps you will kindly 

 oblige me by describing its hieroglyphics, for I am 

 •' no scollard" at heraldry. R. AV". Hackwood. 



[Quarterly of 8 : — 1. and 8. Ermine, on a canton sable, 

 a crescent argent. 2. Quarterh'; 1 and 4 ermine, a fess 

 gules ; 2 and 3 gules, a bend argent between six cross 



• "Primus in hoc stemmate Antecessor floruit siib 

 Rege Gulielmo Rufo ut bene constare potest per Anti- 

 quam Chartam, in qua hie Warrinus de Strode enume- 

 ratur." 



